I chose this for Flashback Friday because it’s Pre- Coronavirus but it was part of a writing Project I was working on called ” The Red Death .” based on Poe’s Masque of The Red Death.
Today seems like a good day to bring it out.
Here it goes:
If I were asked
to chose the music for a Ball
where Death and Terror
held sway over all
I would dig up a band
from unmarked graves
and I set them up
on a decrepit old stage
I would ask them to sing
loudly
and slightly off key
so that no one outside the ball room
would notice the screams.
